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Never underestimate pro-life young people. They will prove you wrong every time. You can take that to the bank.
Case in point: euthanasia.
It's easy to motivate youth to fight abortion. Babies are small, cuddly, and cute. To young men and women, it's obviously wrong to kill them. Most everyone gets that, and teens with the "activist" gene get behind stopping the killing 100%. They work with everything they've got to end abortion, and we love them for it.
But what about the other end of life? Back when I was a teenager, we didn't give the subject much thought. (For a while there, I thought my mentors were saying "youth in Asia" and couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what in the world kids from Japan had to do with abortion in America.)
Eventually I figured it out, and although I realized that it's abhorrent to kill anyone, old or young, I just couldn't rev up the passion to fight euthanasia the way I was fighting abortion. For me, it was all about the babies.
And that may have been how it was for the current generation of pro-life teens. Until Terri, that is.
She changed everything for all of usespecially the adults who educate those teens. With sudden clarity, we realized that we need to fight euthanasia with the same passion and conviction and sheer determination that we fight abortion.
Source: HighBeam Research, "And ... Oh, How We Love Them For It!".(euthanasia)